quotes for life..

Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Carl Sagan
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Harold Nicolson
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Carl Schurz
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.

Magdalena Abakanowicz
It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.

Magdalena Abakanowicz
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

Magdalena Abakanowicz
Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

Annie Dillard
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Jane Addams
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Talmud
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

Paul Tillich
The first duty of love is to listen.

say my name, say my name!